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George Melnyk & Christine Mason Sutherland, eds. Calgary, AB: Detselig Entreprises Ltd, 2011; 226 pp; ISBN: 978-1-55059-411-9, paper $26.95 CAD. University teaching is a challenge that is met in different ways. Beginning with the daunting task of addressing 400 first-year […]

George Fallis. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2011; 475 pp; ISBN: 978-1-44261-267-9, paper $37.95 CAD. Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate and professional education. As well-springs of innovation and ideas, these universities represent the core of […]

What It Was, Is and Should Be Andrew Delbanco. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012; 240 pp; ISBN: 978-0-69113-073-6, cloth $24.95 USD. As the commercialization of US higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the […]

Le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie, le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines et les Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada, entre autres organismes, seront frappés par les mesures d'austérité dévoilées dans le budget du […]

À quelles conditions les universités peuvent-elles s’acquitter efficacement de leurs obligations à l’endroit de la société et conserver la confiance du public? Nos établissements publics d’enseignement postsecondaire doivent d’abord et avant tout jouir d’une autonomie et d’une liberté académique pleines […]

Après que le corps professoral de l’école de droit Osgoode Hall se fut en grande majorité pronon­cé, le 2 avril, contre le partenariat avec le groupe de réflexion privé dirigé par Jim Balsillie qui visait la création d’un programme de […]

A multi-million dollar deal York University signed recently with Jim Balsillie’s Centre for International Governance Innovation for a new program in international law gives the Waterloo-based think tank say over areas in which the program’s chairs will work, their research […]

In my opinion the commentary “Student Surveys a Poor Measure of Teaching Competence” (Bulletin, January 2012) discredits the extensive academic literature on teaching evaluations and the experience-based learning intelligence of students. For CAUT to publish this opinion to tens of […]

About half of all pension plans at post-secondary institutions in Canada are defined benefit plans in which income on retirement is based on salary and years of service. In these, employees contri­bute a fixed amount while the employer pays the […]

Thousands of CEGEP & university students are on strike across Quebec, hoping to force the provincial government to back off plans to increase tuition fees by $1,625 over five years. [Kunal Shah] More than 100,000 Quebec students have walked out […]

Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism Jessica Yee, ed. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011; 176 pp; ISBN: 978-1-92688-849-1, paper $15 CAD. When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say […]

Instruments of Social Change Erika Shaker, ed. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011; 161 pp; ISSN: 0840-7339, paper $15 CAD. If schools are truly to be instruments of social change, how we can ensure that the change we […]